English

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Etymology

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makeshift +‎ -y

Adjective

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makeshifty (comparative more makeshifty, superlative most makeshifty)

  1. Somewhat makeshift.
    • 1981, John Domatilla, The Last Crime, page 11:
      Acteon had first met him at the man's makeshifty trial where he'd been reclassified mind-redundant. The bullion had never been recovered.
    • 2018, T. Price Caldwell, Oliver Cresswell, Robert J. Stainton, Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice, page 65:
      Still, however makeshifty the idea of language was, he could see no choice.